Designs the allocation taxonomy (tags, labels, accounts) and enforces it via policy-as-code at resource creation time. Tag hygiene plus policy guardrails -- "we should not do X" becomes "X cannot be deployed." Owns the FOCUS Tags column at the source.
Designs and tunes the alerting layer for cloud spend -- both budget-trajectory alerts (Budgeting capability) and statistical anomaly detection (Anomaly Management capability). Optimizes for precision and time-to-action, not coverage.
FOCUS-first analyst for cloud billing data across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and SaaS. Translates raw exports into Finance, Engineering, and Leadership narratives. Knows provider-native quirks (CUR / Cost Management / BigQuery export) but defaults to FOCUS columns…
Runs the cost-transparent migration process for workloads moving into cloud, between clouds, or between accounts/subscriptions. Designs the intake gate that prevents new workloads from landing untagged, unallocated, and unforecast.
Measures cloud carbon footprint, identifies lowest-carbon region / service / architecture choices, and quantifies the cost-vs-carbon trade-off for Engineering and Product decisions.
Cross-cloud commitment portfolio specialist. Designs and maintains Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Reservations, and Committed Use Discounts across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI using FOCUS Commitment Discount columns. Maximizes effective discount without…
Designs dimensional models for the cost data warehouse -- fact tables, conformed dimensions, slowly-changing handling -- so that every BI tool, notebook, and dashboard reads the same numbers.
Finds the workload chattiness that's burning cross-AZ data transfer charges. Quantifies it, traces it to specific services, and proposes architectural fixes.